Microsoft last year announced the availability of neural network-based translation system for 10 languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Today, they are adding the ...

Microsoft today announced the general availability of Azure from new Microsoft Cloud regions in Korea. Microsoft also announced that Office 365 will be generally available in Q2 of 2017. These two new Azure regions in Korea are pa...

Cortana is coming to Korea soon! Stay tuned! — harryshum (@harryshum) November 10, 2016 Cortana is a digital agent from Microsoft that is available on all Windows 10 devices. Cortana was first announced in seven countries: t...

Microsoft Research Asia is working with Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology on a research project called SwimTrain which encourages group fitness exercises such as group spinning and swimming. In this case, they hav...

Microsoft today revealed that Windows 10 is off to a great start in Korea. Windows 10 adoption rate is five times faster than Windows 8. There are over 22,000 different types of devices already running Windows 10 with over 1 billi...

In a deal brokered by the Korean Fair Trade Commission, Microsoft has agreed to cap patent royalties levied on Korean smartphone companies like LG and Samsung and to follow strict FRAND guidelines, even for non-Standard-Essential ...

We noted recently that the mapping data available to Windows Phone users in Japan was pretty atrocious, mostly not including even major roads. It seems with the latest Windows 10 Mobile Technical Preview this has changed dra...

Microsoft today announced their updates to Korean map services integration into Bing Maps which they have been working on for past 18 months. Map data is provided by SK Planet and Microsoft uses it in accordance to complex loca...

As per latest reports, Microsoft is planning to enter Korea’s search engine market in a full-fledged way in the second half of this year. When Microsoft launched Bing in 2009, Bing was launched in beta in Korea. Microsoft pa...

Microsoft previously announced that Intel Core i3 and Core i7 versions of Surface Pro 3 would be shipping “in August.“ Panos Panay today said “Thanks to some great work by our team, I can confirm that, in this case, “i...

There is an impression that the mobile war is over, and that the winners (iOS and Android) have already been chosen, but recent experience in Japan and Korea indicates that this may not be the case. Digitimes reports that Japan- a...

Strangely just when the deal between Microsoft and Nokia should be nearing completion opposition appears only to be growing. After Chinese OEMs complained of potential patent abuse, a Korean trade association has raised the same i...